The WWW was not viewed as revolutionary when it first came out. Remember, it was all text at first and hyperlinked documents were already a thing. Gopher existe

The WWW was not viewed as revolutionary when it first came out. Remember, it was all text at first and hyperlinked documents were already a thing. Gopher existed already. The revolution that happened with the web wasn't one little thing, it was the culmination of a lot of small things. Home dial up internet access becoming available. Modem speeds picking up. The addition of images to the web by Mosaic. JPEG compression making images small enough to download "quickly" over the dial up connections, etc. NoSQL wasn't a new technology. It was rebranding of old technology and a rejection of what people felt were overly complicated and bloated solutions for certain problem spaces. Defi is a bad joke. As another reply already mentioned, certain forms of encryption were kept from the public and restricted. I think right now it is likely the current state of the art of quantum computing is being kept under wraps for similar reasons. Lots of weapons related technology is kept restricted for good reasons. You and the OP have a distorted ideologically based view of history that never happened.